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Died. Alexander S. Wiener, 69, co-discoverer in 1940 of the Rh blood factor; of leukemia; in Manhattan. His work led to safer transfusions and the prevention of a major cause of fetal deaths...
...that matter, so do the horrors. They are too much of a bad thing. The reader soon longs for Newman to interrupt with some sustained comment and analysis. What generalizations he does provide are unexceptionable but also unexceptional ("We are all safer when language is specific. It improves our chances of knowing what is going on"). In his 207 pages, there is scarcely as much intellectual substance as George Orwell offers in the 15 pages of his celebrated 1946 essay Politics and the English Language...
...passive-positive." The big question is whether Carter is "active-posilive" (which he claims to be) or "active-negative" (which he sometimes shows signs of being). If the former, then he might just be one of the best Presidents ever; if the latter, then we are probably a lot safer with Ford...
...Soviet diplomat was allowed a 50-minute interview with Belenko, who was brought from his debriefing at Airlie House, a conference center in the Virginia foothills. The pilot refused entreaties to return home, and his U.S. hosts happily resumed their debriefing. The longer the revealing conversations continue, the safer it would seem for the blabbing Belenko to stay in the West...
...machines. Since then, 23 states have adopted similar laws and low registration fees (14 states do not even require registration); another half a dozen states are expected to follow suit by year's end. During more than three decades of use in Europe, mopeds have proved safer than either cars or motorcycles...